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Translation Teory

1. Dynamic/functional equivalence: attempt to render the force of the passage into the target language. 2. Formal equivalence: attempt to render the passage as precisely as possible with the forms and expressions of the original language. English Translations

LITERAL DYNAMIC EQUIVALENCE PARAPHRASE

Interlinear RSVKJV HCSB NJB NLT CEV Message NASB ESV NKJVNRSV NAB NIV GNT Living

KJV . public domain. 1611. Authorized Version, authorized by King James to replace several English translations (Coverdale 1537, 1538 > Bishop’s Bible 1568, Bible 1560). NT based on (TR), the Received Text (Greek compiled by from a half-dozen late-medieval MSS). 12th grade reading level. NKJV . © 1982 Tomas Nelson. NT based on TR. 8th grade reading level.

RV , 1885. A major British revision of KJV, with better understanding of Hebrew, and using for NT the eclectic texts (based on hundreds of much early MSS) of Tischendorf, Westcott-Hort etc. not TR. ASV American Standard Version, 1901. By American members of the RV committee.

RSV , © NT ¹1946, ²1971, OT ¹1952 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Revision of ASV. Includes /. NRSV New Revised Standard Version. © 1989 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Revision of RSV under leadership of Bruce Metzger (Princeton). Te standard used in academic circles. Includes apocrypha/deuterocanonical books. 10th grade reading level. ESV . © 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 Crossway , a division of Good News Publishers. Crossway declared the 2016 update to be the Permanent Text. Attempt to produce a literal, readable translation in the tradition of RSV, avoiding “political correctness” of NRSV. 8th grade reading level. www.esv.org; www.esvbible.org.

NASB New American Standard Bible. © 1963 NT, 1971 OT Te Lockman Foundation. A revision of the ASV. 11th grade reading level. NASB Updated Edition. © 1995 Te Lockman Foundation. A modest updating or NASB, changing “Tee,” “Tou,” etc. to “You,” etc.; removing many initial “And”s; changing punctuation. www.lockman.org/nasb.

HCSB Holman . © 2001 NT, 2003 OT Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville. Sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention to replace the NIV, when the NIV translators announced plans for a gender-neutral revision. www.hcsb.org.

NIV New International Version. © 1973 NT, 1978 OT, 1984, 2011 Biblica (formerly International Bible Society). By an international team of translators, the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT which continues to meet). Reproduction rights granted to (US), Hodder & Stoughton (UK). Te 2011 edition superseded both NIV 1984 and the more gender-sensitive TNIV (Today’s New International Version; © 2001 NT, 2005

rev. 2016.09.12

OT). NIV 2011 is similar to TNIV. 8th grade reading level. www.biblica.com.

CEB . © 2010. Christian Resources Development Corp. (Chalice Press [Disciples of Christ], Westminster [PCUSA], Publishing [Episcopal], Pilgrim Press [UCC], Abingdon [UMC]). Includes apocrypha/deuterocanonical books. 7th grade reading level (=USA Today). www.commonenglishbible.com.

JB , 1966. Catholic translation based on La Bible de Jérusalem (1956). NJB . © 1985 Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday. Revision of JB, based upon a revision of La Bible de Jérusalem (1973). Te standard Catholic translation. 7th grade reading level. NAB , 1970. An American Catholic translation. 6th grade reading level.

JPS Jewish Publication Society, 1917. NJPS New JPS Translation. © ¹1985, ²1999 Te Jewish Publication Society. Ofen abbreviated as JPS, leading to possible confusion over which translation is indicated. Schocken Te Schocken Bible by Everett Fox (New York: Schocken). Vol. 1 Te Five Books of Moses (1995), Te Early Prophets (2014). Attempts to be both literal and sensitive to literary patterns, following the translation philosophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig (see their Scripture and Translation [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994]).

NEB . © 1961 (NT), 1970 (OT) Oxford Univ. Press and Cambridge Univ. Press. Produced under the auspices of most UK and Catholic churches, under the editorship of C. H. Dodd. REB . © 1989 Oxford Univ. Press and Cambridge Univ. Press. A revision of NEB.

GNB (aka in US as Good News Translation GNT); formerly Today’s English Version TEV. © 1966 NT, 1976 OT . NT originally published as Good News for Modern Man. Drawings by Annie Vallotton. 6th grade reading level. CEV Contemporary English Version. 1995 American Bible Society. 5th grade reading level.

Phillips J.B. Phillips. © 1960 J. B. Phillips. NT only.

LB Living Bible. NT 1966, OT 1971. A paraphrase by Ken Taylor of the ASV. NLT . © 1996, 2004 Tyndale Charitable Trust (Tyndale House Publishers). A new translation in the spirit of (Ken Taylor) by a team of scholars. 6th grade reading level. www.newlivingtranslation.com. Message Te Message: Te Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 Eugene H. Peterson. Considerable debate as to whether this is a translation or a paraphrase. Peterson insists it is a translation. 5th grade reading level.

NET Te NET Bible. A freeware translation by conservative evangelical scholars (primarily Dallas Teological Seminary faculty). www.bible.org. Helpful Resources Books D. A. Carson, Te King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1978. D. A. Carson, Te Inclusive-Language Debate: A Plea for Realism. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998. √Philip W. Comfort, Essential Guide to Bible Versions. Wheaton: Tyndale House, 2000. √David Dewey, A User’s Guide to Bible Translations. Downers Grove, InterVarsity, 2005. √Bruce M. Metzger, Te Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001. √ in PBCC library

Websites www.tyndalearchive.com/Scriptures. Tyndale House, Cambridge, an evangelical study center.